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com. edu slash editors. So MBD, Donald Trump went there really quickly with regard to Lisa Cook, who's on the Federal Reserve,

and Trump's mortgage official, FH-A guy, has been looking up mortgage information on people

who are critics of Donald Trump or

inconvenient in some way to Donald Trump.

Lisa Cook falls in that category because she's not a Trump appointee to the Federal Reserve,

in fact, would be there if left undisturbed, I think until 2038.

I think there are several, well, a bunch of things to be said about this. I'll say about a,

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